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<p><p>john Bricuth's Hilarious And Lyrical Narrative Poem Takes The Form Of A Press Conference, Hosted By Sir, Who Is Someone To Whom One Takes One's Problems Or Refers One's Queries As To One Who Knows.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>after A Heyday In The 18th Century, A Spectacular Series Of Romantic And Victorian Contortions And A Brief Revival In The Hands Of W.h. Auden, The Philosophical Essay-in-verse Has Died In Our Century And Left Only Its Ghost To Haunt The Lyric. In This Brilliant Long Poem, Bricuth (aka Johns Hopkins Critic John Irwin) Has More Fun With The Cadaver Than Is Seemly Or Moral, Adapting A Late-middle-aged, Midwestern, Jehovah-like Persona (named Sir) Who Uses The Pretext Of A Press Conference With Three Reporters (bird, Fox And Fish) To Sound Off, In A Fine Parody Of Frost At His Cheesiest, On The State Of The Universe At Century's End. Taking Up One After Another The Received Consolations Of The Age In Response To The Animals' Big Questions (what Is Truth? What Is The Good Life? `ah, Sir, Did You Have To Kill The Children?' Etc.), The Crass, Sadistic Sir Quashes Each Glimmer Of Rational Hope, To His Own Delight And Their Despair. It's The Mr. Bill Show In

Author

Bricuth, John, 1940-

Publisher

Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585674008

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities